Columnists: Mr. Peeve

What he wanted out of life, said Novelist
John O'Hara when he started writing a column for Long Island's Newsday
and its syndicate last year, was to be as "indispensable to
historians of the future as Dickens was to the historians of the 19th
century." Newsday, which paid O'Hara $1,000 a column, found him to
be something less than a Dickens and quite dispensable. Largely because
27 newspapers have dropped his column, Newsday dropped himafter
exactly one year. "I regard him as an outrage as a
columnist," says Larry Fanning, executive editor...